The fog of confusion lifted within a few moments as I remembered yesterday’s journey to the colony. I became acutely aware of important business req...iring my immediate attention; my full bladder and rock solid piss hard-on screamed for relief. I felt like a star of one of those annoying TV commercials featuring old men and their “urgent need to go.”I got out of bed and raced (if you can call a stiff-legged gait racing) toward the bedroom door. I paused for a second to scan the room for a set of. . Hell! You can teach good principles, but people will follow them in pride and conceit."Hiapo nodded. "Exactly. And that's exactly what happened. It took about two thousand years for their children to multiply and industrialize. The slip-ship was still in orbit. A monstrous society called the Taursar Assembly of the Combine ruled the part of Aina where we are now, below the Northern Plateau. They got to the slip-ship first. The Ring hated their arrogance and intolerance, hated it so much it. "Jase took the key from the clerk, hefted his saddle bags and bedroll, and climbed the stairs to his room.Jase looked the room over as he dumped his gear on the floor in the corner behind the bed. The room was neither too large nor too small. It contained a double bed, dresser with mirror, wash stand with towel rack on either end and a water pitcher with bowl on the top.The room also contained two armless, straight back chairs. He found a chamber pot under the bed. There was a window in the. It wasn't a sudden idea, more like a subtle acorn of an idea that took root and began to grow: I could get my passport renewed and take a little trip to Europe or at least to the U.K. I could see some sights I had never had the opportunity to see. And maybe... just maybe... I could actually get to meet Imahottie.I sent her a PM asking if she was still around and if she would be interested in meeting with me if I made it over for a "holiday." She didn't respond for a couple of days and then she.